LoLo sent me an invite to “Fashion Meets Finance,” an event meant to bring hot females in the fashion industry and men still employed in the financial industry together for an evening of indulgences that have been out of style for the last 11 months or so.

Apparently, there’s some doubt in the minds of some NYC ladies as to whether a man in finance can really bring home the bacon necessary for those private schools on the UES (or even to stay out of – gasp – Jersey); similarly, it sounds like a bit of the sassiness has been taken out of some of the male bankers’ strut. This event was evidently organized to assuage both the former and the latter.

As their slogan says, “Ladies, they still make so much more than the guys in advertising.” Or, more literally: FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, MODELS ARE STARTING TO SLEEP WITH AD GUYS INSTEAD OF MANAGING DIRECTORS! WE MUST PUT THIS TO A STOP!

Life may be tough, and your industry might be crumbling, but what you need to realize is that the implications of this crisis for the rest of New York society are even more intense. You Bankers are the core of our ecosystem, the top of the food chain. And when there are less lions hunting, the natural balance is destroyed and next thing you know advertising guys are picking up tens at 1Oak buying drinks from the bar. Pathetic. Without you, there’s chaos, and hot women don’t know where to turn. In the next year there will be too many hot girls that were supposed to marry bankers making the life-long decision to settle with consultants, accountants, and lawyers? Its unnatural and unfair.

There literally cannot be another newspaper article about how you have all moved back to Connecticut to tend bar or work in corporate development at Denny’s. Bankers do not work on a 100% salary-based compensation structure! It is traumatizing. Please, get yourselves together.

The event is January 22 at 7pm. More info and a list of who has RSVP’d here. They let in people who make less than $50K in NYC? Gauche.

ETA: FT Alphaville has done some parsing of the attendees’ reported salaries, and they range from a Citigroup employee with income of over $500,000 to a lowly Morgan Stanley analyst making less than fifty large. Useful if you want to see how you rank.